Canada's Carling Zeeman beat the Austrian heat today, to pick up a silver medal in the women's single at the 2013 World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Linz-Ottensheim.
"It was a really good race; the fastest I've gone on the water. The conditions were really hot, so it called for a few adjustments in race prep and the race plan," Zeeman said.
Lisa Schmidla of Germany won in 7:30.84 (just approx three seconds off a U23 World Best time), followed by Zeeman in 7:33.70 and then Elza Gulbe of Latvia in 7:33.79 in bronze medal position. Zeeman overtook Gulbe and Ukrainian sculler Nataliya Dovgodko, who ended up in fourth, in dramatic fashion to improve her 2012 bronze-medal placing.
"I pulled out a good finish. Second is obviously a step up from last year. The girl who won first was just a fantastic racer. I raced my best race and she raced her best race. I'm happy with it," she said today. Zeeman is a product of Laurentian University and Canada's development system, and is coached by Volker Nolte this year.
Zeeman told worldrowing.com after the race: "It becomes a different race when the temperature is that high but it's part of the sport. I was behind at 1000 metres so I had to start my sprint from 750 metres. It was a huge push to catch these guys."
In other finals, the Canadian women's eight finished fifth overall today in 6:30.56. The U.S. won the event in 6:16.81, followed by Great Britain (6:19.15) and Germany (6:21.61).
"The eight had a solid race," said Rowing Canada Aviron women's development coach, Michelle Darvill. "They are relatively young and some are quite new to the sport. There is a lot of hard work ahead and they are excited to take on the challenge."
In other Canadian results today, Erin Snelgrove of Jordan, ON, was fourth in her B final in 8:01.11, or 10th overall in the lightweight women's single.
Men's single Ben Murphy (Markham, ON) was fifth in the B final in 7:21.93, or 11th overall.
The men's double was sixth in the B final in 6:36.85, and places 12th overall. This crew is Pascal Lussier of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Paul Thiessen of Mitchell, MB.
At this year's U23 Worlds, medals were spread across many nations, but Germany had three gold medals, the most for any one country.
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